🏔️ Breathe Freely 🌊 on Nostr: Lyn Alden about cold plunges in her health plan 🩵 "Do cold plunges a couple times ...

Lyn Alden about cold plunges in her health plan 🩵

"Do cold plunges a couple times per week. Seriously, this seems easy to skip and it’s hard. But if you want to triple dopamine levels for the working day without later downsides, putting yourself in freezing water is the thing."

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So, what’s the deal with all the cold plunging going on here? Well, here are a few of the striking benefits ❄️



• It clears up your mind and makes you happier ... instantly. This is due to a strong release of the hormones noradrenaline (up to 500%) and dopamine (up to 250%). The colder the water the stronger this effect.

• It makes you more resistant to stress. Short-term cold exposure is a hormetic stressor. That means it triggers natural reactions in your body, such as the rapid constriction of blood vessels, that prepare you to be more resilient not only vis-à-vis the cold, but to all sorts of future stress.

• It boosts your immune response, so you won’t fall sick easily anymore. The short release of stress hormones, such as noradrenaline, has an anti-inflammatory effect and decreases the number of inflammatory proteins even days after the cold plunge. This makes it very effective in countering chronic inflammation and auto-immune diseases.

Better to read that again because these benefits alone are amazing! Cold plunging is such a simple and natural way to regain and maintain your health ... and with it personal freedom. All my life, I considered myself to be a “summer boy”, feeling vulnerable in the cold and avoided it whenever I could. Now, I can’t wait to dive into the next icy cold springs, an empowering shift!

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quoting nevent1q…zg5g

My current health plan is:

-Eat real nutrient dense foods.

-Intermittent fast for 12–16 hours per day. Vibes based. And sometimes go multi-day.

-Go for long walks or bike rides in the sun daily. Touch grass and do stuff. Often you can combine this with business meetings.

-Sprint a couple times per week.

-Do cold plunges a couple times per week. Seriously, this seems easy to skip and it’s hard. But if you want to triple dopamine levels for the working day without later downsides, putting yourself in freezing water is the thing.

-Do some squats and pushups. And then deadlift your own body weight for several reps.

-Even then you’ll potentially fail. This isn’t one of those meme posts. I used to be utterly ripped in my competitive martial arts days in my late teens until my mid twenties. But then I got distracted, mainly due to a broken leg and lack of direction. Over the past several Covid years, I’ve weakened, and had trouble hiking mountains. I still have visible abs but they feel fake now. But I focus on a couple things amid my crazy work, which I have ingrained now. The first is intermittent fasting. It literally fixes all my other errors as a baseline. I can fuck up for a year and not gain weight because I only eat in 6 or 8 hour windows. Or even 10 hours. The rest of the time trains the body to burn fat. Next is I do a reasonable baseline of pushups, squats, and sprints per week. Nobody can make me choose to. It’s just my baseline. Last is I do a lot of squats and bicycling to keep my leg muscles interested, which have been mediocre. So if a new martial arts leader has a plan, I’m happy to listen.